For 12 fanbases, tomorrow marks the start of the real season. But for the rest of us, it's coach-firin' week! Always a thrilling and suspenseful time for coaches and their families, fans of failure, degenerate prop bettors.

Zorn's gone, which we all knew. Lovie Smith too, if the Chicago media gets their way. But will ownership cut slack to first-year coaches Raheem Morris, Todd Haley, Steve Spagnuolo and Eric Mangini? Will eight be enough for John Fox? And where will Mike Shanahan and Bill Cowher end up?